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Brainstorm – Sept 22nd

Friday, September 22nd
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY

BRAINSTORM is a reading series organized by grad students from the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. With special guests John Weir, Briallen Hopper, and recent recipients of the Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives Residency Program.

Hear writers you know, meet writers you might like to know, and perhaps be introduced to your future favorite author.

https://www.petescandystore.com/calendar/

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Eugene Lim: Off the Page

The MFA Program is so proud to welcome this year’s visiting professor, novelist Eugene Lim, with a reading from his own work. Following will be a conversation with MFA alum Kaz Uy, and a reception in the lobby of the Music Building.

This event will be both in person and broadcast over Zoom, so I hope you will join us!

DATE: Oct 3
Choral Room, Music Building
Reception to Follow

TO JOIN VIA ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7973756638
MEETING ID: 797 375 6638

BIOS:

Eugene Lim is a Visiting Associate Professor in English and the MFA
Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens
College. He is the author of four novels: Fog & Car (2008), The Strangers (2013), Dear Cyborgs (2017), Search History (2021) and the chapbook The Basement Food Court of Forking Paths
(2020). His writings have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Believer, Granta, and Fence. Honors include a book award from the Association of Asian American Studies and Big
Other’s 2021 Award for Fiction. He runs Ellipsis Press, known for publishing innovative fiction.

Kaz Uy is a trans writer who spent his childhood in the Philippines and earned an MFA in creative writing from Queens College. His writing shows his love for finality, horror, and the magic in the mundane. He can be found on Instagram: @cryptypical.

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Kimiko Hahn Wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

We are so thrilled to share that our own Kimiko Hahn is this year’s winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the lifetime achievement award from the Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine!

Presented annually, it is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the nation’s largest literary prizes. Congratulations, Kimiko!!! This is well deserved!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/161095/poetry-foundation-announces-2023-pegasus-awards-winners-and-a-new-pegasus-award-for-service-in-poetry

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MFA Events – Fall 2023

We’re getting ready for a brand new semester with not just classes but a whole lineup of events for your literary pleasure!

Come out to Queens and learn more about publishing, creative nonfiction, black solidarity, and more!

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Sonia Arora: Two Poems

MFA student Sonia Arora is starting off the semester on a high note, with two poems being published: one in Shadowplay, and the other in the brand-new September issue of Elysium Review.

Shadowplay is a print journal, available for purchase on Amazon, but you can read Sonia’s poem in Elysium right here:

https://www.elysiumreview.com/sonia-arora.html

Congratulations, Sonia!

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Brainstorm – Tuesday, August 29 at 7:00pm

Tuesday, August 29 at 7:00pm

BRAINSTORM is a reading series organized by grad students from the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Tonight, they present work by legendary (think Rashomon) Japanese writer Akutagawa in a new translation by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell. Joining them are William Pagdatoon and Leor Stylar, whose works are thoroughly unlike, and yet, aligned in risk-taking strategies.

PETE’S CANDY STORE
709 Lorimer Street
The Williamsburg section of Brooklyn
=>> G to Nassau or L/G to Metropolitan-Lorimer

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Beyond the Barbie Dream House: Nicole Cooley

If you enjoyed the Barbie movie, you’ll love this piece by our own Nicole Cooley about Dream Houses and miniatures that’s just come out in The Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/08/dollhouses-miniatures-popularity?fbclid=IwAR01PliJaleDydq_iVDdUuIBAfKNtAMgWQ7IQoorkkAv9cZUbfpv1BxLDgY

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New Louis Armstrong Center

We are so excited about the opening of the Louis Armstrong House Museum‘s new Louis Armstrong Center, which will house a 60,000-piece archive across the street from where Armstrong himself lived, in Corona, Queens.

We’re very familiar with this archive over at QC: We’ve been partnering with the LAHM for over a decade on a fellowship that allows our MFA in Creative Writing students to gain access to these materials so that they can create new writing projects based on their new insights into Armstrong’s life.

Ultimately, we’re so happy that everyone can see more of these items–homemade tape recordings, scrapbook photo collages, pages and pages of notes. Louis Armstrong is an American icon, and now the people can spend even more time with Louis!

We’re happy this Center is getting the national attention it deserves! If you want to read more (or listen) about this news, you can check out the story on NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186099303/louis-armstrongs-dazzling-archive-has-a-new-home-his

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Welcome to Our New Visiting Professor Eugene Lim

Eugene Lim is the author of the four novels Fog & Car(2008), The Strangers(2013), Dear Cyborgs (2017), Search History (2021) and the chapbook “The Basement Food Court of Forking Paths” (2020). His writings have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Believer, Granta, Fence. Honors include a book award from the Association of Asian American Studies and Big Other’s 2021 Award for Fiction. He runs Ellipsis Press, known for publishing innovative fiction. 

Check out all our faculty on our faculty page!

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Congrats, Grads!

Just a quick shoutout to our graduating class of 2023–we know you’re going on to great things as writers!

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